Every Tuesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. I had a good chuckle watching this. Poor lady!

2. "To be in the top 1% takes a combination of luck and magical talent. But to be in the top 5%, one in twenty, is mostly about choices." — Food for thought for the new year!

3. "We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing – an actor, a writer – I am a person who does things – I write, I act – and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun." — I really love this quote from Stephen Fry. Austin Kleon expands on it in this piece.

4. I just finished reading Moneyland by Oliver Bullough. An eye-opening read about how the super-rich hide their money to wield power and avoid taxes. What a world we live in! I highly recommend you read it.

5. John Malkovich is a special type of human.

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Every Tuesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. A follow up piece on a story I shared in a previous Five Things on Jered Threatin, the wannabe Rock Star who tried to trick his way to stardom. I really, really hope all the attention he's gotten from this doesn't work out in his favour.

2. Another fantastic episode of the Reply All podcast. Starring a small town in Wisconsin, a local politician who's well out of his depth and a massive corporation looking for somewhere to put a massive factory. Everything you need for a great story... apparently!

3. Are you an ethical consumer? I've been thinking about this a fair bit recently, and I'm not sure I can answer that with a solid "yes". As a user of Amazon Prime I've developed the terrible habit of every now and then ordering a thing, then an hour or so later ordering another thing that I've realised I need and then the next day ordering another thing, all with next day delivery. I hadn't stopped to think of what has to happen in the background to fulfil these disjointed mini shopping sprees. Something to improve upon in 2019. — Yes, You Can Be an Ethical Tech Consumer. Here’s How.

4. Was 536 AD the worst year to be alive? It doesn't sound great: “A mysterious fog plunged Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia into darkness, day and night — for 18 months. […] Temperatures in the summer of 536 fell 1.5°C to 2.5°C, initiating the coldest decade in the past 2300 years. Snow fell that summer in China; crops failed; people starved.”

5. 🎧 Sigur Rós have added another hour of ambient music to their Liminal mixtape.

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PS. I’m going to be taking the next couple of weeks off. Five Things will return on the 8th January 2019. Have a great Christmas and see you in 2019!

Every Tuesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. According to Spotify's end of year stats, in 2018 I listened to 33,152 minutes of music, 75% of which was "non-mainstream" (compared to the average listener) and my most played artists were: Nils Frahm, Poppy Ackroyd, Radiohead, Metric and Ólafur Arnalds. Here are my most played 100 songs from the last year, be warned it's not the most musically cohesive playlist! If you're a Spotify user you can check out your end of year stats at spotifywrapped.com.

2. A fascinating piece with a great title: A Yacht, a Monet, a See-Through Piano: The U.S. Collects on a Fugitive’s Shopping Spree

3. How the hyperlink changed everything — I really like TED's Small Thing Big Idea series that this video is a part of.

4. Advice everyone should follow: If you have work to do, hide your phone!

5. 🎧 Jean-Michel Blais' album II (Deluxe) has been getting a lot of play at Farley HQ in the last week. It's a beautiful album. If you only have time to listen to one track, I'd recommend Nostos.

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Every Tuesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. This charming little video might change how you think about small talk.

2. A great insight into Malika Favre's creative process and how show approaches her illustration projects. If you enjoy the video definitely check out her Instagram.

3. A really interesting piece on how social media (primarily Instagram) is influencing architecture. It's a little sad to think of everything as just another backdrop to a selfie but if it gets people more interested in the world around them maybe it's a good thing? — "Could our obsession with capturing and sharing also represent an opportunity for innovation? Shouldn’t architects be welcoming a platform that encourages people to look more closely at their surroundings?"

4. “Few exercises help clarify your thoughts better than writing” — I totally agree with this quote, and everything else in this piece on the benefits of Selfish Writing.

5. I'm 100% in favour of phone free concerts.

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Every Tuesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. I'm only 30 minutes into this but Tim Ferriss' podcast with the drummer Dave Elitch is really good. If you're learning any instrument you'll get a lot out of the first 30 minutes at the very least. I'm sure the remaining 1 hour and 40 minutes will be just as good.

2. If you like board games check out Ravine. I played it for the first time yesterday and it's a lot of fun. It'll be a fun game to get in time for Christmas. Here's the trailer.

3. Prepare to have your mind blown: The Shepard's table illusion.

4. Two videos exploring writing and mixing music on an iPad Pro. I'm really hoping Logic Pro will come to iPad in some form soon. Please Apple, please!

5. Do you need to work long hours to get a lot done? Charles Darwin didn't think so!

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